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Depot, 1 would suggest that the depot itself should now be
systematically advertised, and that branch (distributing)
depots should be opened so as to give all rate-payers and
others living within the Borough, whose infants and children
are suitable cases for being fed upon the depot milk, a
participation in the advantages that have accrued to those
in the neighbourhood of York Road. At present, it is impossible
for people living away from the neighbourhood of
York Road to send to the depot for the milk daily, whereas
arrangements might be made for milk to be modified (prepared)
and bottled at the depot, York Road, and sent to a
few suitably selected distributing centres, e.g., private
houses, public libraries, etc., in those parts of the Borough
where infantile mortality and illness chiefly abound.
The Lambeth Milk Depot Scheme, judging by its first six
months of working, has proved an unqualified success, exceeding
my own optimistic prophecies and expectations.
The Borough Council is to be congratulated.
Joseph Priestley.
October 15th, 1906.
ADDENDUM.
The above Report does not include the Lambeth Board of
Guardians' infants and children, who have been fed upon
the depot milk, and the Reports of the Guardians' own
Medical Officer may be mentioned.
With reference to the Lambeth Infirmary infants, Dr.
Quarry reports that the depot milk was only used for a
period of three weeks, from which it is impossible to give
any statistics of value. It was found that the supply was
difficult, in practice, to regulate, on account of the infants
supplied varying in their wants from day to day, and being
found, in many cases, at times, too ill to take milk in any
shape or form.
With reference to the Lambeth Workhouse, Dr. Skerrett
sends on notes of 10 infants fed upon the depot milk for